Home Depot’s sales improved during its second quarter as customers focused on smaller projects during the summer months with the U.S. housing sector still mired in a slump. Revenue increased to $47.86 billion from $45.28 billion, edging out the $47.24 billion that Wall Street had expected, according to a survey by FactSet. Globally, sales at stores
Navigating New York City’s economy can feel like a gauntlet of minor indignities. Selling ice cream, for some reason, requires two different permits. Want to quit your gym? You may have to send a certified letter by mail. Oh, and before you haul your belongings to that storage unit, you’d better read the fine print
Michael Burry says the seemingly unassailable positivity around AI reminds him of the dot-com and housing bubbles — and warns the mania could have far more devastating consequences than Enron’s collapse. A subscriber to Burry’s Substack told him in a chat thread this week that it felt like “we are witnessing a massive coordinated effort
August 10, 2026 — 3:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Australia has a building plan for almost everything. We need 1.2 million new homes, new electricity transmission lines, rail and road upgrades, hospitals, schools, and the venues and transport needed
Ryan McPherson fought hard for his piece of Austin. Back in the spring of 2022, when it seemed like everyone was angling for homes in the Texas capital, he and his wife set their sights on a tidy four-bedroom in a sprawling new development on the east side of town. They bid $20,000 above the
President Donald Trump has said he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill into law in protest of the US Senate’s failure to pass voter ID legislation. The housing bill, passed by Congress last month, will automatically become law at midnight Friday unless the president decides to veto it. Experts have said the housing bill